What are some recurring elements in your character designs?

[aqua03]

Here's the question: What are some elements that keep popping up in your character designs? Intentionally or not?

One thing that keeps popping up in mine is flowing things but most often, SCARVES! For some reason, I love giving my characters long flowing things like capes, hooded cloaks, longcoats, tails, floppy ears, vines, etc. But especially scarves. I have no idea why other than they're fun to draw and ad nice elements of dynamism to otherwise static pieces.

Also, really fluffy things, mechanical bits, and muscles also keep finding their way into my character designs as well.

So, what are some elements that keep popping up in your character designs?

Can't wait to hear yours!

[dawgofdawgness]

The blackest pants and whitest shirts you’ve ever seen

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Jacket (or any outers), high-necked collar, outfit with complicated pattern (when not lazy), boots, and necklace.

For character physique it must be defined jawline and/or cheekbones (especially for adults), also wavy and puffy hair.

I guess this pic sums up

[gh0stcr33p]

the color red... I've noticed that the majority of my characters (besides a few such as josie or the green spirit, obviously) have red SOMEWHERE in their design, even if it's some shade of it. I guess it's just because red is a very common color itself, and not to mention that it's my favorite color. (dark red to be specific)

I have more, but these are just the ones I have colored pictures of.... oof

[aqua03]

Funnily enough, It's blue that often times shows up somewhere in my characters due to it begin my favorite color. (Usually teal blue or a electric sky blue.) Even if it really has no business begin there. (Zephyr from DRGN was originally mostly blue despite being the Green Dragoon.)

[Kittosaurus]

I have a bad habit of making my female characters look like myself... like my main character Alice... who in a lot of ways is a more fashionable version of myself with glasses...

[BobbyjoeX]

someone told me i tend to choose a more 90s like fashion for my characters

[Rodimus13]

All robots were build by Grey Side. Therefore, there are many common parts among them.

[aqua03]

An in-universe reason for recurring character design elements, then? Clever...

[gh0stcr33p]

I've got some of those too but I didn't include them because I didn't think they'd count.

[Rodimus13]

it also means you can literally take parts from all kinds of robots and pull them together to make bots. Query is made from about 3 or 4 basic bot sets of parts that were laying around.

[silverraven0]

Me love hoodies, me love hooded jacket, me love hooded cloak, me love sweaters, but I didn't own em, so I draw em a lotz.

(please forgive my language XD)

[qwerty]

Hmm, maybe...

Simple hair because I am not used to drawing wavy or curly hair, or complex hairstyles.

Suits and button-down shirts. Baggy clothing in general.

Non-human characters.

[Kann]

Everyone has hoodies and most of characters have multiple piercings in their ears.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Wristbands. Or bracers of some kind.

[indagold]

Creepy smiles, looking like you haven't slept or ate in 3 months and on the brink of running outside declaring yourself king of the lizard people.

[naito_official]

Braids and ponytails for myself, plus muscular women.

[aqua03]

plus muscular women.

Ditto. (ALL HAIL THE STORM KITTY!)

[simplykit]

yeah i love scarves too bruh!

they make the char look cool

especially when it blows in the wind

i actually forget my char design sometimes and just go with it

draw them with diff armor or clothes , lucky no one noticed

[feardeer]

Asymmetrical hair is the first thing that comes to mind. Occasionally I try to resist it, but it's just so good.

Also most of my characters are on the thinner side. I definitely gotta work on that. I want to be confident drawing any body type.